Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 12% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 13 January 2021 at 05:00.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1823"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2021 after 12 days on 28 January 2021 at 19:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 January 2021 at 21:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 January 2021 at 19:16
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 February 2021 at 17:37
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 11 February 2021 at 19:06
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 260 / 1213
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 260 of Meeus index or 1213 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 260 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 261 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠53.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠87°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 9 January 2021 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 January 2021 at 13:11 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 393 165 km
Moon is 393 165 km (244 301 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 361 km (251 258 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 10 January 2021 at 20:15 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 24 January 2021 at 21:47 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 12 January 2021 at 08:18 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.870°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.898° in the next northern standstill on 26 January 2021 at 15:39 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 28 January 2021 at 19:16 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.